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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:37:10
Message-Id: 5316F029.60001@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface by Raffaele BELARDI
1 On 05/03/2014 11:28, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
2 > After a recent world update I have a new network interface in addition
3 > to 'lo' and the real network interface ('eth0', now named 'enp1s4'):
4 >
5 > # ifconfig dummy0
6 > dummy0: flags=195<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,NOARP> mtu 1500
7 > ether 2e:a2:4b:cb:f2:3f txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
8 > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
9 > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
10 > TX packets 51 bytes 19992 (19.5 KiB)
11 > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
12 >
13 > # udevadm info -p /sys/class/net/dummy0
14 > P: /devices/virtual/net/dummy0
15 > E: DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/net/dummy0
16 > E: IFINDEX=2
17 > E: INTERFACE=dummy0
18 > E: SUBSYSTEM=net
19 >
20 > I'm using sys-fs/udev-210 on an ~amd64 with the predictable network
21 > interface names.
22 >
23 > Does anybody know where this dummy0 interface comes from?
24 > Can I (or should I) disable or remove it?
25 >
26 > thanks,
27 >
28 > raffaele
29 >
30 >
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33 CONFIG_DUMMY set in the kernel?
34
35
36 --
37 Alan McKinnon
38 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] dummy0 network interface Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com>